This past Tuesday I had the pleasure of presenting our TechNet Event in downtown Chicago. WOW! We had a great turnout, and a very fun discussion around Windows Vista, Windows PowerShell, and the latest improvements in Group Policy. During the day, and as always, there were some questions asked for which I wasn’t sure of … Continue reading Thank you, Chicagoland!
August 23, 2008 only…In case any of you reading this are in the vicinity of Hamel, Minnesota this evening.. drop on by the Church of St. Anne for their outdoor “Parish Festival”. The band “Unbridled” (I’m the male lead singer and play MORE COWBELL than you’ll ever need) is playing from 7:00pm-to-whenever they shut us … Continue reading The Band has a GIG tonight…
Kevin’s TechNet Event Resources E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.com Feedback e-mail to my boss: Rich Russell– richruss@microsoft.com Session PowerPoint Deckshttp://www.technetevents.com/resources/2008-August-September.aspx Future Live, In-Person Event InformationTechNet (for IT Pros): http://www.technetevents.com/kevinremdeMSDN (for Software Developers): http://www.MSDNEvents.comMicrosoft Across America: http://www.microsoft.com/acrossamerica 15%-OFF Special TechNet Plus Subscription Promotion – Yes, save $52.39 off of … Continue reading August-December 2008 – TechNet Event Resources
“Hey Kevin.. the TechNet Events site has been pretty bare lately. Aren’t you guys doing any live events?”Yeah.. unfortunately this is the time of year at Microsoft where budgets are being finalized and plans put in place accordingly. And we can’t plan out our schedule until all of those “ducks are in a row”. This … Continue reading Events! We got ‘em!
Zoom in. Really.. zoom in. http://robburke.net/images/deeplol.htmlHave a great weekend!
You have to check out my friend John Weston’s Blog post photo… Pictured are: Chris Avis Dan Stolts Yours Truly John Baker Shawn Travers Harold Wong and John Weston.
(RTM = Released to Manufacturing)Yes indeed.. today the newest version of the best database software platform anywhere reached a major milestone. It’s ready! You can read the PressPass announcement here.And here is the official press location for all things SQL Server.And of course, here is the SQL Server home page.And finally – if you’re a … Continue reading Breaking News: SQL Server 2008 is RTM!
MS Live Labs has a fun app called PhotoZoom. It’s a cool proof-of-concept around how you might handle and navigate through images. One application of this sort of technology that I thought was really cool was in zooming into very VERY large photos. Stay out to see the big picture, or zoom in to see … Continue reading Playing with PhotoZoom
It’s amazing the things you can find on the Internet. Like when a Kurdish artist makes a music video containing my family name…(Aras, the artist, is a popular Kurdish artist. http://www.aras.se/ It’s a nice tune! I just wish I knew what he was saying about me.)
I’m not sure if I’ve said this on my blog before, but I and my family are huge fans of Windows Media Center. I’ve got a dedicated (and actually pretty old and under-powered) Compaq desktop computer that’s running Windows Vista Ultimate edition, and has a TV-tuner card with two analog tuners, plus a HD USB … Continue reading I can control what I watch of the Olympics? Any event? Anytime I want?
Absolutely Full of I.T. 